Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-05-06
NO. 10.
IN GENERAL.

ported to be having an immense circulation.
James Speed, who was Abraham Lin
coins Attorney General, is at the age Of 70
still prncticing law at Louisville, Ky.
On his eightieth birthday Kaiser Wilhelm
gave his medical attendant, DR.. Won Iauer,
purse containing S31, 800, and on his nine
tieth birthday, SO, 900
Susanna Madeira Salter has been elected
mayor Of Arigonia, Kansas, place Of 800
inhabitants. She is the first woman ever
elected to such an Office.
In one year the car-coupler killed 4j9
and severely injured 4013 railroad employees
The coupler is more deadly than the car
| stove.
The President has presented gold watch
and chain to Capt. George Richie of the
British bark Bachelors for rescuing the
crew Of the American steamship Saragossa
on March ODD.
Six tramps got into a fight at the natural
gas wells near Anderson, Ind, last week
/ Two Of them were pushed into the flame Of
the burning gas and died almost instantly.
| Three Of the tramps are in Jail.
Hannibal Hamlin still walks miles daily
in all weathers, fishes with angle worms,
smokes pipe, dances in the ballroom. and
is general favorite with old and young
men and women, at Bangor.
A terrific wind storm late last week
| Thursday afternoon demolished four new
frame cottages in the suburban town of
Lake, ILL.,. and under the debris. two work
men, Judson Place and Charles Carroll
were found dead.
Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, is
living at Turin at the advanced age of 50
years. He has renowned all active pur-
suits of any sort whatever. His son. Major
L Z. IL r IL. L
tern network Of Italian railways.
At Kansas City, No, a little three-y year
old child fell into a tubular well 80 feet
deep and 10 inches in diameter the other
day. The childs cries could be heard, but
no means could be devised to rescue it, as
the body just fitted the diameter of the
we'll
Rev. A. NJ Morrison, who stole a horse
and buggy at Baltimore recently, and was
arrested in Brockton, Mass, has been SEN
fenced to seven years in the pententary
with hard labor. Morrison was formerly
a Methodist minister, and was at one time
well known in New England. Liquor was
the cause of his downfall.
A peculiar blunder occurred in the en-
craving of the plate from which the reverse
side of the - certificates were printed 1t
will be noticed that on the back of the Ger
AillNult are lllt Hlllllles Vi I'VE silver uOl-
lars. The third one from the left corner
of the certificate has trust" spelled "trast"
Where the word appears in other places on
the certificate it is spelled properly.
Judge Parmenter at Boston has rendered
a decision in the case of Charles r. and
Hannah v Ross, alleged spritulastic me
diums, for obtaining money by fraud and
tricks. The woman, the judge said was
entitled to the benefit of common law ex-
empting her from the consequences of mis-
demeanors Mr.. Ross was given two
months in the house of correction and APP
pealed.
The Pennsylvania board of pardons has
recommended pardons in the cases of Mich
ael O'Brien and Christopher Donnelly of
Schuylkill county, Familiarity known as
1.-THE last of the Molly Maguiresn Twenty
one members of that organization were
hanged Many served various terms of
imprisonment and a large number fled the
country when the murderous conspiracy
was exposed.
The gold fields of South Africa are at
tracing a great deal of attention in Eng
land, and large number of younger sons
who would otherwise have entered 1.-THE
church purely as a matter of business are
rushing to this new Eldorado. The Sheba
quartz ledge in the Transvaal was located
last June. The town of Barberton near it
has since sprung up, and now has nearly
10000 inhabitants.
: The 700 operatives of Asa Cushman &
Co. of Auburn, Me, the most extensive
shoe manufacturers in that state, are en-
thusiastic over the result of the first year of
profit sharing by the firm. The business of
the firm last year aggregated 81 ,2G9 262,
the largest years business in its history
The amount paid to employees in wages was
S2SS, PA a dividend of per cent on this
l sum, amounting TO 81 $50, is to be paid
pro rata to the employees.
f The lucidity of many English ideas CON
corning America is beautifully apparent in
an item in THE Queen" Qondon), of re
cent date, which declares that Miss Cath
r arine Lorillard Wolfe, who was noted for
her great wealth and practical benevolence,
died at Philadelphia on the 4th inst, at her
+ residence in Madison avenue, New York,
H. age sixty years She recently made over
by deed her large residence in Lafayette
place for a Bishops club in which clergy
men of the Episcopal church could enjoy
y temporary entertainment when visiting
Z New York
: George Cowles, a farmer of Wethers-
= field, Ct, discovered a tramp in his barn
>, on Friday night of last week lighting a
match. He ordered the fellow out. The
:. tramp seized pitchfork and drove Cowles
out of the barn, and then deliberately set
, it on fire, keeping Cowles out, but remain
= ing in himself until the fire was beyond
control. The barn was destroyed with
four cows hay pigs, etc. Cowes called
his neighbors and pursued the tramp, who
- was crippled by a buckshot wound from
! his pursuers, and was finally captured,
i though he had to be dubbed with a gun
:, stock to keep him still after the capture.
r A water-spout burst near West Peter
a borO, \. H., on Friday afternoon of last
q week and caused a great wash-out. The
n water came down in sheets, covering the
entire hillside, and upon reaching the
il streets swept everything before it. Large
Y rocks weighing two tons were moved from
! their beds and left in the middle of the
n street, Trainmen on the Milford branch of
: the Boston and Albany railroad report that
/. train ran through veritable water-spout
n near East Holliston, Mass, Friday after
noon. The engine was deluged with water
and hailstones. The cloud, which was tun-
# nel-shaped, moved off after the novel COLI
sion.
The western railroads, it is said at St
Louis do not make any attempt at con
cealing their plans in regard to issuing
passes to cattlemen. They contend that
while in engaged in the transportation OF
cattle they are as much employees of the
p, road as though their names were on the
payroll, for otherwise substitutes would
have to be paid by the road and the ex
penses included in the shipping rate. The
eastern roads, however, denied their pa
irons this privilege, with the result of driv
ing from the market some of the leading
buyers, who transferred their orders u
Chicago, where they had the benefit of the
Grand Trunk cut rate. In self-defense tn,
indianapolis and St Louis railroads have
returned to the pass sytem. The shipper
and one man for every two cars is allowed
transportation east in the caboose and re
turn ticket by express
The peerless Maud s., the famous trotter
is quartered in the stables of her owner
Robert Bonner, on Fifty-ffth street. Sh,
is i'm fine condition. and, of course, she il
receiving the best of care. John Murphy
her trainer, exercises her every day. Dur
ing the "a hours she has four meals. At
e o'clock in the morning she is permitted /,
n drink all the water she wants, and after
J. ward has two quarts Of oats, At noon sh,
is again fed two quarts of the same grain
n About O'Clock she has 10 pounds of hay
1t Her last meal occurs at O'Clock TheI
Z her diet is changed, and consists of masl
composed Of two quarts of bran mixed witt
re two quarts of oats. She has IA dessert il
-" the shape of three or four carrots WheI
P Maud S. is in active training she receives
If double the quantity of oats fed 10 her dur
s. ing the season of her luxurious ease an,
ordinary exercise.
10 Some peculiar circumstances attended tn
~ funeral Of the late Hon. j, NJ. Dyer, win
o.. was a highly esteemed citizen of the Greer
le Mountain State. Mt West Salisbury.